Italians rarely associate the current crop of aging leaders with a capacity to change.
The only winners, she said, are the aging leaders of the Cuban exile community, who had been losing influence.
Even within the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest opposition group, ageing leaders at first resisted calls to back the protests.
Almost none of the aging leaders in Amman presides over an economy that can provide these swarming youths with jobs.
Most of the aging leaders of the Khmer Rouge remain free, and most of society's leaders accept their suggestion to "let bygones be bygones".
Several right-wing leaders used the occasion to promote their belief that there are grave risks in pursuing peace with aging leaders in an unstable region.
It typifies the generational shift that will occur at the 16th Communist Party Congress next month, when Mr. Jiang, 76, and other aging leaders are expected to step down.
Another, Julio Pena, did a painting of two cackling skeletons dressed in revolutionary military uniforms, in a tongue-in-cheek reference to Cuba's aging leaders.
A push by Mr. Jiang to hold on to authority could also complicate the succession process, experts say, if it caused other aging leaders to rethink their own retirements.
Mr. Arafat and Mr. Sharon, aging leaders who exemplify the violence, passion and complexity of their people's feud, clashed in Lebanon with bitter results for both.
The aging leaders of 1989 who ordered the crackdown won the battle but lost the war: China today is no longer a Communist nation in any meaningful sense.
